Printing-plate.



No. 675,898. Patented lune ll, l90l. R. MAXWELL.

PRINTING PLATE.

(Application flied Sept. 25, 1900.

(No Model.)

W/ TNEfla. [NVEN TOR J3 fizz/62% W M UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT MAXWELL, OF TOPEKA, KANSAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOSEPH F.KIRKPATRICK, OF SAME PLACE.

PRINTING-PLATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 675,898, dated June 11, 1901.

A plication filed September 25, 1900. Serial No. 31,091. No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT MAXWELL, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Topeka, in the county of Shawnee and State ofKansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Printing-Plates; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others to makeand use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,forming a part of this specification.

The objects of myinvention primarily are the novel means wherebytype-bodies and also forms commonly employed in a linotype-machine maybe readily attached to the articulated printing-plates of anaddress-holding machine, and, second, the support of one typeform byanother in the holding-plate.

The invention is especially adapted to be used in the address printingmachine for which I made application for Letters Patent of the UnitedStates on the 21st day of May, A. D. 1900, Serial No. 17,457.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination ofparts, such as will be first fully described and then specificallypointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a View in perspective of a series ofarticulated holdingplates, showing the invention applied thereto. Fig. 2is a perspective view in detail of one of the novel holding-plates,showing one of the type-forms partially withdrawn from the slot in theplate. Fig. 3 is a sectional View of the articulated holding-plates asseen in Figs. 1 and 4. Fig. 4 is a view of an alternate construction ofthe holding-plates.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a flexible form-carrying platewhich is made from a flat piece of brass or other material capable ofbeing bent and is narrow in width and of suitable length. In the plate Ais a longitudinal slot o, extending to within a short distance of eachend of said plate. At one end of plate A, at the termination of the slota, isacircular opening a, of considerable size, communicating with saidslot.

B represents the, longitudinal type forms or bodies such as are commonlymade in a linotype-machine, consisting of the thin strip of metal I),having the type b upon its upper edge, as seen in Figs. 1 and 2. In thesides of the strip 5, at a point midway the upper and lower edges of thestrip, are longitudinal grooves 12 which are of the proper width toadmit the thickness of the plate A.

The type-forms B are shorter in length than the plate A and preferablyof the same length as the slot a. Upon the forward edge of the plate Aare separate outwardly-extended strips o 0. which are bent upwardly inthe arc of a circle to form hooks, and near the rear edge of each plateare narrow slots or openings a a by means of which the separate plates Ain the series of plates, as seen in Fig. 1, are connected one Withanother.

In order to connect the type-form B with the plate A, the end of plate Ahaving the opening a is bent downwardly in position a short distanceupon the line transverse to the point of communication of the slot a andthe said opening 0; and one end of the type-form inserted within theslot a, the side of said slot a entering the grooves b b on each side ofthe type-form B, and the form is then pushed inwardly until the end ofthe form comes into contact with the end of the slot. The end of theplate admitting the type-form is then bent upwardly in the plane of thesaid plate.

In Fig. 4 are shown two type-forms D D in a parallel position, one formhaving for address-printing machines the name of the address in typeupon its upper edge and. supplemented by another having the post-ofiiceaddress in type upon its upper edge. In this arrangement thelongitudinal slot 0 in the flat plate 0 is made of increased width tothat of slot at in plate A, so as to accommodate the parallel type formsD D, these forms, as shown, having the groove d upon one side only andat the same distance upwardly from the lower edge of the type-form as inthe type-form 13.

In one end of plate 0 and at the termination of the slot 0 is atransverse opening a. In the plate O, extending a short distance in alongitudinal direction of the plate on each side of the type-forms D Dand also from the ends of the transverse opening 0, are the openings orslots 5: 0 In order to insert the type-forms D D, the end of the plate 0having opening 0' is bent downwardly on a line transverse with the rearends of slots 0 as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 4, and the formsinserted in the slot 0, the edges of the slot entering the groove in theouter sides of each form, and thus binding the inner sides of the formclose to each other in position, as shown on Figs. 3 and 4. Upon thebending upwardly of the end of the plate 0 in the plane of the saidplate the outer edge of slot 0' is nearly in contact with the outer endof the forms D D and retains said forms from longitudinal movement.

The lower edges, which extend downwardly from the under side of thetype-forms, afford means for the engagement with the ordinarysprocket-wheels of the address-printing machines and when inserted inthe grooves of the wheel will impart regularity to the movement of aseries of holding-plates flexibly connected or articulated. The groovesin the type-body may, however, be made close in position to the loweredge of the type-body, if preferred, and the construction of the holdingplate 0 adapts it to receive the single type form without modificationof the invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I now claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. A flexible holding-plate fortype-bodies said plate having a longitudinal slot and a transverseopening at one end communicating with said slot.

The combination, with a flexible hold-' ing-plate having a longitudinalslot and a transverse opening in one end of said plate communicatingwith said slot, of a grooved type-body inserted in said slotsubstantially as described.

3. A holding-plate having a longitudinal slot and a transverse openingat one end communicating with said slot in combination with one or moredetachable type-forms supported by said plate within said slot, saidholdingplate having a flexible end for securing the type-form.

ROBERT MAX \VELL.

\Vitnesses:

II. J. \VINGART, Fonnsr IlUoIIEs.

